Your example is far more influential and inspiringthan any words of instruction, or threats,or even words of encouragement.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?- Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is far better to be alone,than to be in bad company.- George Washington

The wise man looks back into the past,and does not grieve over what is far off,nor rejoice over what is near;for he knows that time is without end.- Lao Tzu

Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -for future generations.Create the legacy of a better world.Leave this world a better place than you found it.Literally planting trees foryour great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,but far more important...use this symbolism - this imagery -to represent the kind of legacyyou want to leave to future generations.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,it is rather the only true good.- Soren Kierkegaard

Far and away the best prize that life has to offeris the chance to work hard at work worth doing.- Theodore Roosevelt

If a man loses pace with his companions,perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Let him step to the music which he hears,however measured or far away.- Henry David Thoreau

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt

From far beyond this life,I hear the call.From place beyond all place,I feel the call.From time before all time,I know the call.From one before all ones,I am the call.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man in debt is so far a slave.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are risks and costs to action.But they are far less than the long rangerisks of comfortable inaction.- John F. Kennedy

Faith is the highest passion in a human being.Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.- Soren Kierkegaard

The Answers of Spirit are far more powerfulthan the Questions of our small minds.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As far as we can discern,the sole purpose of human existenceis to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.- Carl Jung

Most of us love, to be sure.Yet far too often our love is passive.We must be proactive in our lovein order for it to change our lives.- Marianne Williamson

Far better is it to dare mighty things,to win glorious triumphs,even though chequered by failure,than to take rank with those poor spiritswho neither enjoy much nor suffer much,because they live in the grey twilightthat knows not victory or defeat.- Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,and it is far the best ending for one.- Oscar Wilde

Working at a job you hate is unlikelyto bring you either happiness or success.Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -recognition and financial reward - if you are workingat something that inspires and excites you.And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never saw a discontented tree.They grip the ground as though they liked it,and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.- John Muir

Life is far too important a thingever to talk seriously about.- Oscar Wilde

The physician can bury his mistakes,but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -so they should go as far as possible from hometo build their first buildings.- Frank Lloyd Wright

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.Only one link in the chain of destinycan be handled at a time.- Winston Churchill

And on the pedestal these words appear:`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.- Percy Bysshe Shelley

How far you can go without destroying from withinwhat you are trying to defend from without?- Dwight D. Eisenhower

When life offers you a dream so farbeyond any of your expectations,it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

It is far more impressive when othersdiscover your good qualities without your help.- Judith Martin

In soloing - as in other activities -it is far easier to start somethingthan it is to finish it.- Amelia Earhart

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.- John Muir

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,and the word happy would lose its meaningif it were not balanced by sadness.It is far better take things as they come alongwith patience and equanimity.- Carl Jung

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,going and coming like ourselves,traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,and through space heaven knows how fast and far!- John Muir

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be seventy years young is sometimesfar more cheerful and hopefulthan to be forty years old.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Better do a good deed near at homethan go far away to burn incense.- Amelia Earhart

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hourwhen every one has to throw off his mask?Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?Do you think you can slip away a little before midnightin order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?I have seen men in real life who so long deceived othersthat at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...In every man there is something which to a certain degreeprevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;and this may be the case in so high a degree,he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of lifewhich extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.- Soren Kierkegaard

Little do men perceive what solitude is,and how far it extendeth.For a crowd is not company,and faces are but a gallery of pictures,and talk but a tinkling cymbal,where there is no love.- Francis Bacon

The poet ranks far below the painterin the representation of visible things,and far below the musician in that of invisible things.- Leonardo da Vinci

These men ask for just the same thing,fairness, and fairness only.This, so far as in my power,they, and all others, shall have.- Abraham Lincoln

It is an interesting question how far menwould retain their relative rankif they were divested of their clothes.- Henry David Thoreau

I have never written a book that didn't teach mefar more than it taught any reader.- Isaac Asimov

So far, this is the oldest I've been.- George Carlin

As far as the laws of mathematicsrefer to reality, they are not certain,and as far as they are certain,they do not refer to reality.- Albert Einstein

There are a number of things wrong with Washington.One of them is that everyone is too far from home.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Sweetest Strawberry:A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.He fled, the tiger after him.Coming to a precipice,he caught hold of the root of a wild vineand swung himself over the edge.The tiger sniffed at him from above.Trembling, the man looked down to where,far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.Only the vine sustained him.Two mice, one white and one black,little by little started to gnaw away the vine.The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.Grasping the vine with one hand,he plucked the strawberry with the other.How sweet it tasted.- Zen Koan

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.- Theodore Roosevelt

The problem in defense ishow far you can go without destroying from withinwhat you are trying to defend from without.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I will far rather see the race of man extinctthan that we should become less than beastsby making the noblest of God's creation,woman, the object of our lust.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is far more important to be able to hit the targetthan it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

As far as I'm concerned, I prefersilent vice to ostentatious virtue.- Albert Einstein

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.- Marianne Williamson

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.- E. F. Schumacher

As we work to create light for others,we naturally light our own way.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEingthat is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"as a destroyer of our humanity.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -never from demanding that others live simply -or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have only this moment,sparkling like a star in our hand -and melting like a snowflake.- Marie B. Ray

What we think, we become.All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts, we make the world.- The Buddha

We cannot choose our external circumstances,but we can always choose how to respond to them.- Epictetus

All our dreams can come true,if we have the courage to pursue them.- Walt Disney

When the vast cathedral of our beingbecomes a sanctuary for all creation,we become the face of God.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.We give our own meaning to time as to life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is perfect. It's a mess.It has always been a mess.We are not going to change it.Our job is to straighten out our own lives.- Joseph Campbell

Our lives begin to end the day we become silentabout things that matter.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,but by how we respond to those challenges.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie